St. Nicholas Magazine was a popular children's magazine that published monthly from 1873 until February of 1940. Focused on early childhood development and education, the magazines featured stories for different age groups, as well as riddles, conservation and nature facts, and math and word games. Each issue was beautifully printed with illustrations from a consistent group of artists and wood engravers. The Rare Books collection holds a large collection of bound volumes of St. Nicholas Magazine.
The magazine's first editor, Mary Mapes Dodge, knew many writers and was able to persuade many to submit their work to the magazine. St. Nicholas published Louisa May Alcott's Eight Cousins, Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer Abroad and Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book stories among many others. The magazine also featured the St. Nicholas League where several famous writers were first published. This department held contests every month for best poems, stories, essays, drawings, photographs, and puzzles submitted by the magazine's young readers and the winners' work was published in St. Nicholas Magazine. As young readers of the magazine, Edna St. Vincent Millay won the poetry contest seven times, E.B. White and Bennett Cerf won essay contests, William Faulkner won for his drawings, and F. Scott Fitzgerald was honored for a photograph.
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